Monica Candelaria

Monica Candelaria, 22, a woman from Albuquerque, vanished on May 15, 2003. Friends told police, even then, that they had heard Monica Candelaria, 22, had been killed and buried out on the city's windswept West Mesa, a rumor that would haunt the margins of her missing-persons file for years. Her absence stretched on through seasons and construction booms, the date of death uncertain but fixed somewhere after that May day in 2003.

In February 2009, as development carved retention ponds and ...

West Mesa Homicide Investigation - City of Albuquerque

Candelaria's Family Finds Grief